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Everyone knows it’s smart to exercise, but getting off the couch is easier said than done when you’re depressed. That’s why counselling services at Simon Fraser University have been prescribing workouts — along with a personal trainer — to 10 students per semester who have moderate to severe depression.

For the first time in the Vancouver area, more than 5,000 homes have sold in a single month. A total of 5,173 residential properties were sold in the region in March, marking a 27.4-per-cent increase over March 2015 and a 24-per-cent increase over February 2016, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. “March […]

A 31-year-old Vancouver woman was killed in East Vancouver Thursday after she was struck by a trailer being towed by a dump truck, say police. The collision happened just before 9:30 a.m. on East Broadway at Rupert Street, said Brian Montague, a VPD spokesman. Investigators believe the pedestrian had been crossing East Broadway as the truck turned right […]

On the eve of the UN Climate Change Summit in Paris, Canada may be shedding its “obstructionist” mantle on the global scale, but there is still much to be done on the home front. Given its spotty record over the last 25 years, Canada has a lot of ground to make up if it wants to make a dent in reducing its green house gas emissions.

Canada’s border agency has implemented just one of the 19 recommendations made a year and a half ago by a coroner’s jury examining the in-custody suicide of a Mexican woman who was about to be deported. The jury made 23 recommendations, of which 19 were directed at the Canada Border Services Agency or the ministry responsible, Public Safety Canada.

Members of the University of British Columbia Faculty Association are taking a formal vote of non-confidence in the school’s board of governors. UBC’s board has been criticized by the faculty after the abrupt departure of former president Arvind Gupta last August. Since then, the board chairman has resigned in an academic freedom scandal, the finance committee […]

A 23-year-old Coquitlam man has been charged in connection with a single punch that altered another man’s life forever. Vancouver police say a publication ban prevents the release of the man’s name, but he faces one charge of aggravated assault. Investigators say they were led to the suspect following a public appeal for information about the early-morning attack […]

A new report set tongues wagging Wednesday for its back-of-the-envelope calculation that estimated of the $38 billion in Vancouver residential real estate sales in 2015, Chinese buyers were responsible for a third.

Vancouver architects David and Susan Scott have woven their individual practices into one entity so successfully that judges on the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's selection panel couldn't pick one over the other to bestow its 2016 Young Architect Award upon.

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